Senior Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer – Microservices & Contract Testing

Intuitive.ai; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive.ai is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive contract testing and platform automation across a microservices ecosystem. You will work closely with development teams to enable scalable testing practices and reliable deployments in cloud-native environments.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in software/DevOps, deep microservices experience, and hands-on use of Pact, AWS CDK, and Terraform. This role is remote across the USA and emphasizes trunk-based development and strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps experience.
• Strong expertise in Microservices Architecture and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience implementing Contract Testing using Pact, Spring Cloud Contract, or similar frameworks.
• Experience with AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Familiarity with trunk-based development and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to influence engineering teams and establish platform standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and adoption of contract testing frameworks across microservices.
• Partner with development teams to establish consumer-driven contract testing practices.
• Improve service reliability by validating API contracts early in development.
• Define standards for inter-service communication and testing.
• Drive quality engineering initiatives across distributed systems.
• Design, review, and optimize large-scale microservices architectures.
• Collaborate with architects to improve scalability and resilience.
• Promote event-driven and domain-oriented architectural patterns.

Skills

Microservices Architecture

Contract Testing

Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Trunk-Based Development

Domain-Driven Design

CI/CD & DevOps

Tools

Pact

Spring Cloud Contract

AWS CDK

Terraform

Git-based workflows

Docker

Job description

Intuitive.AI is one of the fastest-growing (INC 5000, CRN) Cloud & SDx solution and services companies supporting enterprise customers on a global scale. Intuitive is an "Engineering Company" delivering measurable value and key business outcomes.

Intuitive Superpowers:

- DataOps & AI/ML

- Cybersecurity (App/Data/Infra) & GRC

- SDx & Digital Workspace

We are proud to partner with some of the world's leading enterprises and serve 200+ customers across different industry verticals. We have achieved many milestones along the way, including being recognized as a top-10 fast-growth 150 IT company in the Americas by CRN in 2022 and being named one of America's fastest-growing private companies by INC 5000 in 2022. That’s not all! Even CIO Review awarded us as the Most Promising Cloud Migration Company and Artificial Intelligence Solutions Provider in 2022.

About the job:

Location: Remote across USA

Position Type: Full Time

Note from manager:

The core requirement is someone who thoroughly understands microservices architecture and can work closely with the development team to enable contract testing across services.

We'd like this person to come in strong on:

Contract testing (Domain Driven Design experience preferred)

CDK

Terraform

Trunk based development

Position Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Microservices Architecture, Contract Testing, and Cloud Infrastructure Automation. This role will work closely with application development teams to establish and scale contract testing practices across microservices ecosystems while driving platform engineering best practices.

The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience with Contract Testing, Domain‑Driven Design (DDD), AWS CDK, Terraform, and Trunk‑Based Development, along with a strong understanding of modern software delivery and cloud‑native architectures.

This is a highly collaborative role requiring the ability to influence engineering teams, improve software quality, and enable faster, safer deployments across distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

Contract Testing & Microservices Enablement

• Lead the implementation and adoption of contract testing frameworks across microservices.
• Partner with development teams to establish consumer-driven contract testing practices.
• Improve service reliability by validating API contracts early in the development lifecycle.
• Define standards and best practices for inter-service communication and testing.
• Drive quality engineering initiatives across distributed systems.
• Design, review, and optimize large-scale microservices architectures.
• Collaborate with application architects and engineering teams to improve scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
• Identify and resolve service integration challenges.
• Promote event-driven and domain-oriented architectural patterns.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

• Work closely with product and engineering teams to apply Domain-Driven Design principles.
• Define service boundaries and domain models.
• Support bounded context identification and implementation.
• Drive alignment between business domains and technical architecture.

Infrastructure as Code & Platform Engineering

• Build and maintain infrastructure using AWS CDK and Terraform.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment frameworks.
• Enable self-service platform capabilities for development teams.
• Support cloud-native environments and containerized workloads.

Software Delivery & DevOps

• Champion trunk-based development practices.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Enable rapid and reliable software releases.
• Establish engineering guardrails and platform standards.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps experience.
• Strong expertise in Microservices Architecture and distributed systems.
• Hands‑on experience implementing Contract Testing using tools such as:
• Pact
• Spring Cloud Contract
• Consumer-Driven Contract Testing frameworks
• Strong understanding of:
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• API governance
• Event-driven architectures
• Experience with:
• AWS CDK
• Terraform
• Git-based workflows
• Strong knowledge of:
• Containerization (Docker)
• API integrations
• Experience with Trunk-Based Development methodologies.